5-1 What is a “Key” in Music?

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I liked your explanation, it was easy to understand, thank you.

Tomas (Administrator) June 20, 2023 at 6:24 pm

You’re welcome 🙂

I love music theory around guitar. I was looking for what chords in the keys was minor and major as I forgot the rule but you nailed this was simple to understand. Thanks!

Tomas (Administrator) February 2, 2023 at 11:23 am

My pleasure Brian 🙂

Memorise memorise…….
OKEYDOKEY! A.x

Tomas (Administrator) July 28, 2021 at 5:18 pm

We got to keep our brains active 🙂

Thank you Tomas for finally clearing up this puzzle for me. The door is open for me now and 1 4 5 is finally starting to make sense to me. Regards, Terry

Tomas (Administrator) March 22, 2021 at 2:10 pm

That’s great! I’m glad to her that Terry.

Hi Tomas. I follow you C scale and G scale notes as placed in the order of 1,2,3,4,5,6 then you bring them down to chord selection. Question: In the Key of C scale D is minor. In the Key of G D is major. Is there any chance or never you may have D major in the Key of C?
Thank You.

Tomas (Administrator) March 22, 2021 at 2:19 pm

By definition if you are using the notes from the key of C the D chord will always be minor. To make the D chord major you would need the notes D – F# – A. There’s no F# in the key of C (it is in the key of G).

Now… that said.

Don’t get a headache over this. I’m giving bits and pieces of theory starting with the most useful things. You don’t see the whole picture yet. Much more will fall into place as you learn more.

Tomas (Administrator) June 29, 2019 at 8:32 pm

Hi Paul,
Every key has sharps or flats that go with that key. The key of C and A minor have no sharps or flats. The key of G has one sharp. You guessed it… F#.

This lesson will help: https://realguitarsuccess.com/courses/guitar-theory/lessons/key-signatures/

Tomas

tomas .why is it a F# in the key of G .Is this something to memorize .becaause in the key of C its a F

Tomas (Administrator) March 22, 2021 at 2:22 pm

Yes, it’s something to memorize. If I were to analyze it I’d say it has to do with the distance between notes (intervals). But I’m not sure how helpful that is.

In this case it’s better to memorize first, analyze later.

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